I can feed myself mommy!

Hailey is turning into such a big girl. She has been doing better and better everyday with eating her food. She has been trying all kinds of new treats and is loving all of them. As you saw from past videos, she is not to fond of the veggies, but we are working on it. In fact, tonight we had peas for dinner. I usually have to mix applesauce with them to get her to eat them, but I just had it ready on standby just in case she wouldn't eat the peas by themselves. I had to coax her the first couple of bites and show her that mommy liked them too! She was loving them by the third or fourth bite and ate the whole thing gone! yay for HB! Can you tell that mommy is excited that she is finally eating well now?!? I usually give her some puffs as a "dessert" because she loves them so much. Tonight I tried letting her feed herself and showing her how to put them in her mouth. After about the fifth try she had it down! We got a video of her putting one in and after each one she would give me a "high five"! She was so proud of herself and it was too cute :)

Give me a five!

HB has now learned how to give you a five. It is usually a high five, but she is givin some low ones in this video. Took me a minute to get her to do it because she is infatuated with our video camera and stops whatever she is doing when we pick it up (go figure)... but I got her going again.

Mommy makes me laugh

HB thinks it is the funniest thing when someone sneezes... even the dog. She was in a super funny mood, and I sneezed for real one time and she started laughing so hard. So we decided to tape it.

I don't want to eat my veggies!

Here is a funny video we took of Hailey. It is actually chicken mixed with veggies... which i have to admit smelled terrible! Here is mommy's little trick to get me to eat it :)

Monster Trucks

We made our annual trip down to atlanta on sat. for the monster trucks. HB was of course too young to go. Luckily I have good friends and got a great babysitter in her AJ to watch her. I didn't want to leave her behind, but I knew she was in good hands. The show was good as always, actually better this time because they cut out a lot of the filler they usually include. There was massive air and even more crashes. We got some good hot chocolate to warm us up after having to walk a mile in the freezing cold weather. It was a lot of fun to get out for while and join all the rednecks in the`ir oasis...

Monster Trucks

Snow in Loganville

We got a little snow misting in Loganville this past week. Not enough to play in and it came in the middle of the night. I wanted to get HB out there and see it and capture a few pics in her first snow. She didn't know what to make of it, and probably cause it was too cold to even think! Here are the couple that I got...

Snow Day

7 Months

My baby girl is now 7 months old and I can not even believe that those words are coming out of my mouth already. She wants so badly to be a big girl already, which makes it even harder to watch her grow so fast. She still hasn't quite mastered the art of crawling, which I am both anxious to happen and also glad has not happened yet. I know that once she gets going, there will be no stopping her. At this point she just wabbles and does what looks like a push up.. haha. She hasn't figured out that to crawl, she has to move her arms to get going. She has everything but that down. She is still saying "da da da da da" all the time, and now says "na na na" when she is upset, which I think is a version of "mama" ;) In the past 3 days she has master the art of saying "ut oh". The very first time she was sitting in her Exersaucer and dropped one of her toys and I said Ut oh and she said it right back the exact same way. Now she says it over and over and it is very funny. We can't always get her to do it, but we def. know when she is saying it.

I am happy to report that we now have a food loving baby!! It took quite a while for her to get use to it, but mommy hung in there and kept trying and now she LOVES all her food. We started with fruits, which I know some people maybe skeptic about, but the doctor recommened this to help her get the taste for it. Her favorite so far is bananas. I have now started indrucing more than fruits, green beans, sweet potatoes, and two days ago mac n cheese. I mixed it with a little apple sauce first so she would like it. It worked and she now loves her mac n cheese! It is funny to watch her eat cause she opens her mouth real big and leans into the spoon. She also loves her puffs. They are like little fast dissolving crackers... she could eat the whole jug. We are looking forward to the new year and all it has to bring.

7 Months